Crystal Report from OLAP Data Introduction - Choosing a style for the report

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Next, you choose a reporting style from a set of templates available in Crystal Reports as shown here:

Design Pane of the report

When all of this completed, the 'Design' plane of the Crystal Report would look similar to this:

  Preview Pane of report

The 'Preview' plane of the finished report would appear like this:

Summary

Crystal reports' built-in GUI for generating reports from OLAP sources is very easy to use and configure. Besides MS SQL Analytical Services, data from many other sources can also be used in report generation.

The following slide show shows all the steps needed for generating Reports from Crystal Reports based on OLAP Data. You may need to permit downloading the executable from this link.

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